Excluded
In accordance with section 48(1) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings
Act 1987, it is resolved that the public is excluded from the following part of the
proceedings of the Consents and Regulatory Committee on Tuesday 23 July 2019 for the
following reason:
Item 8 – Prosecution
That the public conduct of the whole or the relevant part of the proceedings of the meeting would
be likely to result in the disclosure of information where such disclosure
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Hydrogeologic Risk Assessment of
Hydraulic Fracturing for Gas Recovery
in the Taranaki Region
Taranaki Regional Council
Private Bag 713
Stratford
28 May 2012
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Disclaimer: The hydraulic fracturing and geologic information in this report has largely been
supplied by oil and gas companies in the region and is believed to be accurate and reliable. However,
no liability is accepted for any opinions expressed or for any errors or omissions in the
defined as positive
or adverse, temporary or permanent, past, present or future, or cumulative. Effects
may arise in relation to:
(a) the neighbourhood or the wider community around a discharger, and may
include cultural and socio-economic effects;
(b) physical effects on the locality, including landscape, amenity and visual effects;
(c) ecosystems, including effects on plants, animals, or habitats, whether aquatic or
terrestrial;
(d) natural and physical resources having special
physical environment and how some of the features may
be protected.
• Suggest ways that their immediate physical environment was different in
the past, eg. the school playing fields, land use, river channels
Level 2
• Investigate easily observable physical features and patterns and consider
how the features are affected by people.
Level 3
• Justify their personal involvement in a school or class initiated local
environmental project, eg. a school tree-planting
collective regional response is required to the ‘Movement’ collective regarding
implementing safer rural speed limits for pedestrians, horse-riders, cyclists and user of
mobility devices. The Committee did not support imposing speed limits on local roads
arbitrarily and agreed that any response or action be left to each individual council as
road controlling authorities.
Recommended
That the Taranaki Regional Council:
1. receives and notes for information purposes the correspondence
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Invite Kevin to talk to your class about weather in
Taranaki or weather-related emergencies in Taranaki.
Invite Kevin to talk to your class about what to do should
a weather-related emergency occur whilst you are at school or at home.
Visit our website for daily, monthly or yearly weather information.
Download our ‘Weather’ study unit from our website or contact Kevin for a hard copy.
Download information sheets about flooding, storms, high winds and tornadoes from our
pervasive long filaments or cyanobacteria can cause a range of issues such as streams becoming un-inviting
for recreational users, anglers having difficulty fishing, streams closures due to cyanobacteria toxins and
adverse impacts on stream ecology.
This freshwater periphyton programme has been designed to monitor for the presence and biomass of
‘nuisance’ algae in Taranaki streams and rivers at levels which may affect the instream values of these
streams i.e., aesthetic values
of new and upgraded services including the
Waitara Express and improvements to the
bus network after community consultation.
A new Regional Land Transport Plan was
also adopted in June.
We adopted our 2024/34 Long-Term Plan
following public consultation on what our
priorities should be over the next 10 years.
The plan includes $4.04m in additional
funding for freshwater monitoring and
developing a new Land and Freshwater
Plan, $915,000 for improving climate
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Taking, use, damming and diversion of surface water
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Objective
OBJ
6.1.1
To promote the sustainable management of the surface waters of Taranaki while
avoiding, remedying or mitigating any actual or potential adverse effects from the
taking, use, damming or diversion of surface water.
Policies
POL
6.1.1
The Taranaki Regional Council will prohibit the taking and use of water in the
catchments or reaches listed in Table 1, except for minor takes
or coffee will be available in
the Rata Room from 10:30am and
members will also be able to pick up their
plant orders from this time. At 11:00am
Graham Smith will lead a pre-lunch tour
round the garden and at approx 12:30 the
Members’ Pot Luck Lunch will be served in
the Rata Room. As there will be a board
meeting the previous night, you will be
able to meet and talk with many of your
board members over lunch. Following
lunch, Gordon Bailey has kindly agreed to
give us an illustrated